The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-05-25
Chat With the Ladies.

Pompadour silks are recommended Tor
dress frocks for young girls.
The safest colors for cheap portieres
are oive-green and brick red.
Wide Directoire revers appear on many
Of the imported French frochs.
Apple green and chestnut bronze is q
color combination favored in Paris.
Short backs and long front tabs arc
the Distinguishing marks of new wraps.
Long fots Of ribbon give decorative
effect to black and colored lace over
dresses.
India silks and foulards Will be the
rivals of China silks and pongees this
season.
We have taken note of some children s
toilets which struck us as particularly
tasteful.
Combination costumes are not so much
worn as usual. Silk is made up by itself
and woolens also.
Thin silks mixed with tulle and Isle
for evening wear are very popular addl-
tions to a summer wardrobe.
The favorite color for graduation
gowns are rose, blue, Nile green, and, of
course, heliotrope.
Indoors little girls wear frocks in the
shape of a pelisse, loose and straight in
front. and completed at the back by Il
plait in the skirt let in between two
seams. A silk cord or ribbon sash goes
round the waist.
Fine wooden tissues are streaked with
silk or lighter shade, forming stripes
or squares, and a small pattern of silk
dots, clover leaves, or small howerets OF
silk, initiating embroidery relief, is scat
tered all over upon the dark ground.
Extremely pretty capotes for the
spring are composed of birds wings.
Sometimes the wings are dyed Of all
colors; sometimes they are left of their
own natural tint; they cover the capote
almost entirely, With the exception Of a
small putting of silk or Grape at the
back.
Some of the new wool novelties have
wooden grounds in light or dark shades
Of pure colors. on which in high relief
are lines of plush and frise flower de-
signs in natural colors and realistic to a
degree in treatment. These goods are
high priced, and intended only for parts
of plain wool costumes.
While combinations OF plain and fancy
figured goods, often in strongly con-
trasted colors, remain extremely popu-
lar, many handsome dresses are made OF
the same color throughout, but OF two
fabrics, and for these refined toilets e.i-
quisitely fine cashmere and MORE are
especially favored.
In the new fancy woolen materials in
troduced for the spring and summer
season we remark that small white pat
terms very frequently occur. In some
fabrics irregular white stripes form a
sort check pattern, in others large white
dots are scattered over plain or striped
colored grounds.
Costumes of imperial serge, camels
hair, vigogne, tricot cloth and OF fire
canvas patterned fabrics, without limit,
will be in great demand, made up IN
combination with velvet-striped fabrics
of every description, or with skirt and
bodice trimmings of fancy colored satin
surah, figured with quaint geometrlc
and
In the Sandown mantles Of cloth a
corbeillc check in tones of tieldmousc
has its cape sleeves defined by braid
about five inches in width in a dark
shade of brown. This bordering band
is drawn over the shoulder in folds, sug-
gestive of braces, then carried in datness
over the back to terminate on the skirt
with cluster of rich and massive pesse-
menterie balls.
The novelties in lace fchus might be
tersely described as an ingenious manip-
ulation of squares. Each one is due to
a small handkerchief OF that form, either
in cream or ecru, the surface of which
is almost covered by open work en-
broidery or lace. These hacdkerchiefs
are folded so as to give different shape
and appearance to each corner, and this,
with the assistance of ribbon, is achieved
SO effectively that the four corners often